The WEEE and RoHS directives have received much attention within the electronics manufacturing community. However, there are ...

In a perfect world, quality is built into the product and technology OEMs and contract manufacturing companies should not need to address product quality issues throughout various phases of the product life cycle. However, until that day comes, managers and executives should implement the following.

As contract manufacturing business development wins more OEM programs, the risk of the contract manufacturer not being able to recover his investment decreases because similar outsource product manufacturing programs often have similar startup support requirements.

While there are some common outsourcing manufacturing contract formats, no two contracts are identical and, there is no viable, common platform that can be applied to every outsourcing contract pricing model with regards to either party’s profits.

The following is a reasonable representation of a manufacturing service level agreement a contract manufacturer would present to a technology OEM for the purpose of building a robust product program.

Our survey asked electronics contract manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and prototype houses to rank, in order of importance, their top 5 improvement opportunities. Read what they selected.

Typically, what many OEMs are presented with from their contract manufacturing partners, with regards to supply chain contract scheduling and schedule changes, allows for schedule changes to occur but there is a limit to the degree of change in manufactured product volumes delivered.

An important aspect of the ROIC pricing model to be aware of is that in uncertain business segment environments, most OEMs will not want to help expedite a contract manufacturer's accounts receivable.

This article breaks down the outsourcing cost and savings analysis for an OEM outsourcing program while also presenting the contract manufacturer’s cost of performing supply chain management services for the OEM customer’s business.

Extended supply chains emphasize the need for executives to understand how to profit from global operations and how to leverage the knowledge associated with the added depth and wider scope.